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It is my understanding that the INDD file format is proprietary to Adobe and so not "accessible" to any other software manufacturer.

I have read that there have been a few improvements in handling IDML files, but other than that it is all the same, I believe. So, .ai files (with embedded PDF) just as before, and PSD just as before. And IDML but not INDD.

Hi Shophieh, Welcome to the forums Unfortunately its not possible to export to IDML or INDD I'd advise exporting to a PDF. Thanks C

No, not INDD files. IDML files will open, but there are some things that InDesign does that don't transfer over 100%. Other things are 'different'.

Hi AdobeSmells, Welcome to the forum Currently its only possible to open IDML files not INDD I'm afraid. Thanks C

Photoshop actions cannot be used with Affinity Photo. You can import Photoshop brushes to Affinity Photo, but that was already possible in V1. Affinity Publisher can open or place InDesign Markup Language files (IDML) but not native Adobe InDesign files. This means that .indd files need to be converted to .idml first before they can be used with Affinity Publisher – again, that's nothing new and works the same way in Publisher 1.x. Concerning Adobe Illustrator: As with Affinity V1, AI is not available as an export format so you cannot save as .ai in any of the three applications. So it seems that really nothing has changed much with version 2 concerning your use case.

Hi @nils01, Welcome to the Affinity Forums Thanks for your kind feedback! I can confirm that the Affinity apps can already export to the Adobe formats .PSD or .PDF, using File > Export, however we cannot save to the .Ai or .INDD formats, as these are proprietary formats that Adobe do not release a specification for, unlike .PDF / .PSD which is documented in one form or another. For Affinity to support these filetypes, Adobe would need to release a public specification for them, so it is out of our control - my apologies. I hope this clears things up.

How can I import an .indd file into affinity photo? please help thanks David

I don't remember how many times I've typed a "w" into an InDesign text frame while having the text tool active. Luckily for me, all of them seem to have been catched in proof reading thus far. So thank you, Serif, for choosing a default shortcut with a modifier! Now… That all said, is there anything that prevents you to go to Preferences > Keyboard Shortcuts > View and changing the Preview Mode shortcut from "ctrl-W" to "W"? Since basically any *.indd document can be losslessly converted to IDML by some means – be it by asking a buddy working with CC or via a paid online service if you can't run InDesign yourself (anymore) – I don't really see the benefit either. *.indd is proprietary and would likely require reverse engineering while IDML is in fact a compressed archive package of plain text human readable XML files, neatly organized in subfolders. Just open one with BBEdit and read for yourselves. Currently I'm in the process of backing up all my *.indd layout archives as IDML, just in case I'd need to come back to them later once I've left my 32-bit compatible MacOS partitions behind. (Not that it's gonna happen anytime soon though.) ~~~ Oh, and +1000 to points #1, #4 & #5, of course!

There appears to be a rendering "glitch" with the imported file. The text can get selected but does not display as being highlighted. Below I select both paragraphs + delete them, then I add a few characters and also delete some selected. The issue can get avoided by either unticking "Keep paragraph together" or "Hide overflow" – which both appears strange as culprit for this issue. indd text selection & flow.m4v

A workflow that is built on producing and editing PDF files with any software as if they were native files like .docx, .afpub, .indd files, or anything comparable, is vulnerable to many kinds of circumstantial issues. PDF is not a data exchange format even if it is largely standardized. Font related problems might be isolated issues that can be resolved along version updates or changes made to the system environment but there are multitudes of features that cannot possibly survive when routed from .afpub to .pdf and back to Publisher. The specific problem at hand could e.g. be one that is related to having Source Sans Pro family initially been made active via Adobe CC service and having lost its activation by not having CC services loaded. This problem could typically be resolved by reactivating the fonts on Adobe CC to make the fonts again available for non-Adobe apps. But this is just a guess, the problem might equally well be elsewhere and require a different "fix".

@MartinMHC: You can get a 10-day free trial of Publisher from https://affinity.serif.com/en-us/publisher/ (scroll to the bottom of the page, and click Free Trial under the correct OS). That would let you import the IDML files you have now (not INDD), and you could save them as .afpub or .afdesign or .afphoto (and Designer/Photo can open any of those).

The problem is the .idml isn't an .idml... It's an .indd (InDesign) file. So someone simply changed the extension at somepoint. InDesign, when faced with such a file, will silently open it without saying anything. If one has a version of ID equal to or greater than the version of ID that saved the file. Viva Designer will open it as an .indd file (after changing the extension. I've uploaded a version APub can open. Whitewall should fix their stuff. Untitled-1.idml

Yes, not a complete history but good enough. FWIW, it also opens ..indd and .indt files too. Being on a self-imposed semi-retirement, I only have a single client I do work for that uses it. In the past, only one client I used it for was US-based. The others were in Europe. It definitely is different to use. With only a single client, I need to actually think about how to do certain things in it.

Une fonctionnalité intéressante est la mise en place dans le paquet d'un script qui active les polices, sans les installer. INDD fait ça. En plus de pouvoir mettre à jour le dossier des liens, si on effectue des mises à jour. ***** A nice feature is to put a script in the package that activates the fonts, without installing them. INDD does this. As well as being able to amend the links folder, if you make updates.

Hi Arne Skinlo, There is no way to export to formats such as IDML or INDD you should be able to export to a format such as PDF and then open the resulting PDF in InDesign. Thanks C

Dear Garry, I lost my documents that i made in indesign. These were for example invoice letter that i made in my brand style. I had a subscription via my son, but he finished school so end of adobe. I bought inffinity pub since a week and want to make my docs in there via the pdf files i have from my docs (bcs pub doesn't read indd exstensions) Now i make a master page and then i copy page every element to that master which is time consuming. So i was hoping that there is a better way to do it.

FWIW - InDesign handles blend mode in ID.pdfthis same dataset without issue. blend mode in ID.indd Mapping Sullivan RR - vector data for Page 5.pdf Mapping Sullivan RR - Page 5.pdf

Oh, look, Creative Market also allows for multiple files, like this person: Files Included: Docx,Doc,IDML,INDD,INDT,PSD,EPS,AI,PDF,PPT,PPTX,afpub,afphoto,afdesign,Google Slides,Google Docs, Best regards!

Hi, I am new here and have bought Affinity Publisher today. I have converted my indd-File to IMDL and try to open this with the Publisher. But Publisher crashes at once. After that I try to open the PDF-File exported from InDesign, but after opening the file Publisher hangs at once no further action is possible. I must get this to work. Please help me out. Thanks in advance. Eveline

You both seem to forget that a.) there were centuries before computers where media were created analogue with technologies that can still be used and b.) digital hardware & software kept changing and being discontinued for decades, making various data unusable or inaccessible years before subscription models became a reality. I am not arguing for subscription but would like to weigh up what arguments against it are really related to this model. The idea of "ownership" does not. The general desire to "own" things sounds more philosophical or ethical than technical or economic. The accessibility of software is primarily a question of compatibility or monopoly and not of perpetual or temporary licences. Today I can rent ID for 1 months and batch-convert tons of indd documents to idml / xml / pdf files to access them via Affinity. I would be more concerned about proprietary file formats that are not interchangeable. They are the source of dependencies.

Absolutely serious here. .INDD files are a few orders of magnitude more complicated than .DOC files. And don't call me Shirley. (From Airplane)

That's doable for simple tagged text use. But tagged text can/does include more than simple p.styles/c.styles use. Six or so years ago, I guided a company's use for creating their catalog. Everything was held in a database. So using that database, their covers are created as well as the sections of the interior. Once the tagged text was imported, there was little work to be done manually. At the time, I created a mock-up to demonstrate the concepts. Here's the mock-up cover: As well, tagged text can include things that cannot be directly done with simple formatting, like index creation: <v14.32><e9> @Index Heading:A @Index Body:Abc Counseling And Family<\n>Services Inc <A(3,"INDD",)[0]>25<A(3,"IND$",\#000\#027)[27]> @Index Body:Abc Counseling And Family<\n>Services Springfield <A(3,"INDD",)[0]>25<A(3,"IND$",\#000\#027)[27]> All from out of the database. The snippet is part of an 500+ page medical services guide with 8 or so sections. All the sections are in the final tagged text file, which also applies the appropriate master pages for each section. It takes about 5 minutes for the entire publication to be created and is at least 99% finished when done. I use tagged text for non-public facing hospital signage that merges various text, graphs and images. The typical 5 different posters take a few minutes to produce at an average of $300 per poster, 6 times a year.

Hi, I am sending 2 links to download 2 INDD files and please convert it to AFPUB and send it back via Dropbox. https://www.dropbox.com/home?preview=BOFA+absolvent_SK_2020.indd https://www.dropbox.com/home?preview=BOFA+maturita+2020.indd Thank you Tom.

Most likely the images are linked from the INDD file's location to the various images' locations, the file paths. You won't be able to see the images because there is no obvious path to them.